Chapter 42 Getting Scolded Again
The next morning, Song Yilin saw the Maybach again as soon as she went out.
Song Yilin opened the door and got into the back seat.
"Come sit in the front."
Upon hearing the voice, Song Yilin looked up abruptly: "President Xu, weren't you on a business trip? Why are you here?"
Seeing Xu Qingmin suddenly made Song Yilin feel a little uneasy.
"I heard some people don't like being picked up and dropped off by a driver, so I came to pick them up and drop them off myself."
Song Yilin got out of the back seat and into the passenger seat.
"It's not that I don't like the car you arranged for me to pick me up and drop me off, Mr. Xu, I just like the feeling of driving myself."
Xu Qingmin tightened his grip on the steering wheel: "Okay, then I won't make any more arrangements."
Song Yilin was surprised by Xu Qingmin's words. She looked up and stared into Xu Qingmin's eyes, which were like a vast ocean, too deep for her to understand.
Song Yilin wanted to say that you seem to have changed, but in the end she only said, "Thank you."
Xu Qingmin was playing old songs in his car, songs he used to love playing on his phone. Back then, they liked to each have an earphone.
At that time, Song Yilin loved listening to music, but she never had the money to buy a music phone. Xu Qingmin gave her a very popular OPPO music phone at the time, but she was always afraid that her mother would find out that she was in a relationship, so she kept using her old flip phone. That music phone was kept in her closet until it was destroyed in the fire.
It just so happens that 'Long Time No See' is playing.
I don't know if Xu Qingmin played it on purpose or if the song was just going to play at this point.
"Didn't you used to really dislike this song?"
Xu Qingmin once said, "If you love someone, stay together properly. If you break up, break up completely. If you meet again after the breakup, say 'long time no see.' Once you break up, you should completely cut off contact."
As people reach middle age, do they constantly contradict themselves and overturn the words they said in their youthful arrogance?
"No, it's just that after meeting you recently, I suddenly find it sounds nice."
Xu Qingmin's words made Song Yilin's heart suddenly race.
After calming herself down, Song Yilin said, "Mr. Xu, could you please give me your address? I'll come to thank you in person after the old lady is discharged from the hospital in a couple of days."
Actually, Song Yilin's words were vague, but everyone knew that when Song Yilin went to Xu Qingmin's house, it wasn't just to express her gratitude.
Xu Qingmin tapped the steering wheel: "I'll send it to you later. You can come anytime, but I prefer you come to my company."
Just then, the boss called.
The car was cramped, but the Maybach's sound insulation was so good that Xu Qingmin could hear Song Yilin's boss scolding her for an hour.
She didn't even know when she arrived at the 4S store, and Xu Qingmin didn't remind her at all.
After hanging up with her boss, Song Yilin awkwardly said to Xu Qingmin, "Mr. Xu, thank you for driving me here today. Um, I'm going to work now."
She thanked Xu Qingmin for not pointing out her embarrassment.
When I was a low-level employee, I thought Boss Zhou was a very kind and refined person. But after he became the general manager, it was normal for me to be scolded five or six days a month.
She asked Shao Min and the general manager of the Yishi store, and they said that their high salaries already included the cost of being scolded.
Shao Min said, "At first, I would cry secretly, but I gradually got used to it. All bosses are the same. Even if it's not harsh verbal abuse, they will still drive you to do everything you can to make money for them. We are like donkeys pulling a millstone. If we do well, we get a carrot; if we don't do well, we get a whip. Our position is different from that of front-line employees. The more we earn, the more grievances we suffer."
So if you think your boss is great, it's not because he's really great, but because you're not at a level where your boss would scold you.
However, Song Yilin has already mastered the skill of not crying no matter how wronged she feels.
People who cry will never reach this position.
Song Yilin used to dislike some of the general manager's behaviors, but after becoming the general manager, she realized that many times, in this position, if you don't do it, you're the one who will leave.
Song Yilin has gotten used to being scolded over this period of time. Boss Zhou is the kind of person who will scold her if there is even the slightest drop in data. Today, Boss Zhou scolded her because she missed the mobilization meeting on Monday.
But she had clearly told Boss Zhou that she was absent because her grandmother had gone missing.
But Boss Zhou still cursed. Never before had he felt that Boss Zhou of Xin'ao Group was not human. In his eyes, if you are paid, you have to work non-stop. If you don't die from overwork, work yourself to death. He doesn't care whether employees will die suddenly, he doesn't care about their physical and mental health, he doesn't care about their family relationships. In his eyes, employees are not human.
From this perspective, Xu Qingmin is a very conscientious boss. Although he seems to look down on everyone, he still takes good care of his employees.
However, it's possible that Song Yilin has never worked under him, so it's unknown whether Xu Qingmin would verbally abuse his executives.
When Song Yilin got off work, the Maybach indeed didn't come.
Perhaps Xu Qingmin has changed, or perhaps he no longer devotes himself to Song Yilin as much as before.
It's only natural that people who have been hurt are unwilling to give too much.
Song Yilin drove the company car directly to the hospital, and the feeling of holding the steering wheel was reassuring.
When I entered the ward, only my mother-in-law was there.
Where is my mom?
Cai Hong: "Your mother took Qunqun to her classmate's house."
Song Yilin: "It's rare that Guanqun is willing to have someone send her."
After my daughter started junior high school, she stopped wanting adults to pick her up and drop her off at school. Actually, it's good for children to be more independent.
"She said she was going to exchange ideas about the guzheng and erhu with her classmates, but the instruments were too big and heavy, so she asked her grandmother to help carry them."
Bai Guanqun is somewhat like her grandmother; she has excellent social skills. Although Bai Guanqun only came to this school this semester, she can get along with anyone and has friends wherever she goes. With a personality like hers, apart from her grades being a headache, there's no need to worry about her being bullied at school.
Xu Qingmin sat at the highest point of the main house of Haoshan Villa, slowly sipping a glass of wine, looking down at a group of fourteen or fifteen-year-old children dancing wildly and singing indiscriminately in the courtyard.
Xu Qingmin spotted the little girl who looked a lot like Song Yilin at a glance.
She stands out in the crowd.
Suddenly standing in the crowd, waving his arms, a group of children suddenly fell silent.
Under Bai Guanqun's direction, the originally extremely chaotic scene was suddenly filled with the playing of a new version of "Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies' Dream".
It has to be said that Song Yilin's daughter has a great leadership style and high emotional intelligence at a young age, which is somewhat similar to Song Yilin now.
To be honest, he was genuinely jealous that Bai Ye and Song Yilin had such an outstanding daughter.
Xu Qingmin didn't know how to face Song Yilin's daughter. He never thought he would become someone's stepfather, especially since this stepdaughter was Bai Ye's daughter.
He now has no idea how to face Song Yilin.
He was afraid that if he held on too tightly, Song Yilin would feel like she had no freedom, but he was also afraid that if he loosened his grip, Song Yilin would be gone again.
Song Yilin likes freedom and independence, but he also needs to be cared for. He can't quite grasp the balance between either of them.
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